An excellent radio programme devoted to the mighty Arthur Cravan (podcast). * National Novel Writing Month. * A new issue of Triple Canopy. * Stuart Evers on Raymond Carver. * Steven Hall and Ellis Sharp at LitFest. * Mr Marvel. * The soundtrack to John Lydon’s life. * Matthew Coleman’s glorious new exhibition. * “You can tell the woman trilling The Grand Old Duke of York to the accompaniment of a cheap synthesizer never thought it would come to this”: don’t mess with your kids’ musical tastes. * An extract from Stevie Chick’s Black Flag biography. * The story of Nabokov’s The Original of Laura. * Kafka, the man who disappeared. * The sound of Mad Men. * An interview with the late Liam Maher (Flowered Up) from 2005. * The art of absence. * Peter Hook’s tour of Manchester. * Sam Jordison celebrates 30 years of the London Review of Books. * Salman Rushdie on The Paris Review. * Will Self’s other life. * Nostalgia: what’s the role of the past in fashioning the future?. * Geoff Dyer on John Cheever’s Journals.
First posted: Sunday, November 1st, 2009.
